…a place with temporary accommodation of huts, tents, or other structures, typically used by soldiers, refugees, or travelling people…
…(of a man or his manner) ostentatiously and extravagantly effeminate…
…(1859–1925), US football coach; full name Walter Chauncey Camp. One of the first to play US football, he coached at Yale 1888–92 and was influential in shaping the rules of the sport. In 1889, he and a colleague initiated the annual selection of an All-American college football team…
…a camp from which mountaineering expeditions set out or from which a particular activity can be carried out…
…a military training camp for new recruits, with very harsh discipline…
…a folding portable bed, typically made of canvas stretched over a metal frame…
…a seasonal camp apart from the main buildings of a ranch, used during a cattle round-up…
…a residential course for overweight children, promoting exercise and healthy eating to facilitate weight loss…
…a camp at which community work is done, especially by young volunteers…
…take down a tent or the tents of an encampment ready to leave…
…the country retreat of the President of the US, in the Appalachian Mountains in Maryland. President Carter hosted talks there between the leaders of Israel and Egypt which resulted in the Camp David agreements (1978) and the Egypt-Israel peace treaty of 1979…
…a prison camp for political prisoners or prisoners of war in which many die from poor conditions and treatment…
…an informal encampment set up as a public protest against a military establishment or an aspect of military policy…
…a camp where prisoners of war or political prisoners are kept under guard…
…(especially in North America) a camp providing recreational and sporting facilities for children during the summer holiday period…
…a site for holidaymakers with accommodation, entertainment, and leisure facilities…
…a camp for the temporary accommodation of people, e.g. refugees or soldiers, who are travelling through a country or region…
…a military officer acting as a confidential assistant to a senior officer…
…a type of Neolithic settlement in southern Britain, visible as an oval enclosure surrounded by concentric ditches that are crossed by several causeways…
…a place in which large numbers of people, especially political prisoners or members of persecuted minorities, are deliberately imprisoned in a relatively small area with inadequate facilities, sometimes to provide forced labour or to await mass execution. The term is most strongly associated with the several hundred camps established by the Nazis in Germany and occupied Europe 1933–45, among the most infamous being Dachau, Belsen, and Auschwitz…
…a session run by a professional sports team to train particular players, or to test potential new players, before its main preseason training…
…a summer holiday programme for children, offering a range of activities…
…a military officer acting as a confidential assistant to a senior officer…
…(1918–2007), US writer; full name Madeleine Camp L’Engle. She wrote mainly children’s fiction, including A Wrinkle in Time (1962), the first of a quartet that also included A Wind in the Door (1973), A Swiftly Tilting Planet (1978), and Many Waters (1986)…
…(1859–1925), US football coach; full name Walter Chauncey Camp. One of the first to play US football, he coached at Yale 1888–92 and was influential in shaping the rules of the sport. In 1889, he and a colleague initiated the annual selection of an All-American college football team…
…(1918–2007), US writer; full name Madeleine Camp L’Engle. She wrote mainly children’s fiction, including A Wrinkle in Time (1962), the first of a quartet that also included A Wind in the Door (1973), A Swiftly Tilting Planet (1978), and Many Waters (1986)…
